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so today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the EVGA GeForce GTX 570 so this is in videos latest addition to their gtx 500 series family so the first card with the gtx 500 series name was the GTX 580 so that was if you followed in videos naming schemes over the last well I guess the last few generations the 80 would be the highest end single GPU typically although we have seen it an 85 which was a refresh and then the 70 would be the next one down so this is basically a slightly a slightly cut-down GTX 580 so here as we get this open I'll tell you some of the key differences between the 570 and the 580 so first of all the 570 has fewer functional units so that is fewer shaders fewer CUDA cores all of that kind of stuff okay it also has less RAM so I'm going to show you guys the box now we're going to sort of talk about that for a bit it has less video memory so that's only one point two eight gigabytes versus the 1.5 gigs on the GTX 580 so even though this has less video memory than the GTX 480 right now it looks like performance is quite similar power consumption is much lower and yeah it looks like obviously the price is quite a bit lower as well we've got full support for NVIDIA latest technologies including 3d vision surround physics DirectX 11 and SLI and that includes 3-way SLI on this particular card let's go ahead and have a look at the back I think there's not much here that we don't already know very very similar specs overall to the GTX 580 the key differences are like I said before it is a little bit more cut-down it's a little bit slower but it also comes in at a very attractive price so it comes with a poster which I'm going to ahead so carefully unfold here for you guys an EVGA gaming poster no less which is a skull with some like wicked like guns or something okay very nice very nice got you vga then we have a user guide which shows you presumably how to install it how to install your drivers we have a driver disk don't use this download the latest off the nvidia website as well as a powered by EVGA sticker for the front of your case next we have the accessories I like EVGA is environmentally friendly and recyclable packaging which you can clearly see here let's have a look at what we've bought in terms of accessories so the first thing we have is a mini HDMI to HDMI cable and EVGA is classic shiny wrapper with EVGA logo on the back I haven't actually seen that with a graphics card before I've only really seen that in there our motherboard packages so then we've got a dual molex to PCIe 6 pin adapter another of the same and finally a DVI to VGA adapter although if you're really upgrading to a 350 dollar graphics card today please PLEASE upgrade your monitor if you're still using VGA please alright next we have a little warning please allow the graphics card to cool for a minimum of 2 minutes after operation before removing it from your system interesting you don't want to burn yourself after all alright and let's go ahead and take off the caution electrostatic sensitive devices do not open your handle accept it ecstatic free workstation let's get this card out I've actually got a GTX 580 here with me for comparison so we'll be able to hold them up next to each other alright so the first thing we see is that the gtx 570 looks very similar to the 580 the overall shrouded cooler design is something that we've seen on nvidia cards since gee pretty much the 8800 series where we've got a a fan at the back here so this is a PWM controlled fan and we better hold on pause for a minute and we've also got a little EVGA sticker here so I'm just going to go ahead and remove the gun if I can remove the cover on it and I'll go ahead and remove that here we are okay cool okay and then we've got a rear exhaust sort of setup so you can see there's actually no access to the fan whatsoever through here we can just see the the shroud itself and then if we move around to the other side you can see that all of the air is being exhausted out of the case now there's a couple different design philosophies for video card coolers so one of them is that the video card because it produces a lot of heat inside the case should be cooled sort of adequately but we should remove as much of the heat as possible from the case through an exhaust vent whereas the other philosophy is that we should design sort of a more open air cooler that does a better job of cooling the VGA core frankly but exhausts heat inside the case so the air were using to cool the video card isn't actually as cool so there's obviously EVGA s taken the nvidia reference design approach to this one using the rear exhaust cooler so we've got two 6-pin PCI II power connectors up here at the top couple EVGA stickers then we've also got SLI headers that are compatible with both two-way so you just use a single header as well as 3-way SLI moving around to the back which we actually sort of looked at already but I'll show you again we have two DVI connectors one mini HDMI please do note you can only use two at a time so either this one and this one or this one so you can't use all three at the same time to get NVIDIA surround going you do have to have two matching gtx 570 cards the back of the PCB actually looks pretty much identical to the 580 from what from what I can recall so what we'd probably find if we took the cooler off is that even though there's solder points for all of this memory actually here you can clearly see there's components on the back here but these ones don't have memory chips installed on them so that's where we get the difference in ram Kapoor between the 570 and the 580 we've got a standard PCI Express 16x interface down here at the bottom that is PCI Express 2 so it's double the bandwidth of the old PCI Express 1 and I think that's pretty much everything there is to say about it EVGA s I guess their value at their brand value is a few different things first of all they have their step-up program which allows you within a certain window of time to take your gtx 570 let's say nvidia you know kind of have the 570 on the market only for like a month and then they go and release like 1/2 575 or something EVGA step-up program allows you to trade in your old 570 and then pay like at the difference to get the new 575 so it's a pretty cool program they also have their lifetime warranty as well as 24/7 tech support so those are some of the EVGA differences and i'll actually show you guys also what they had to say for themselves so besides their EVGA precision tool which is an overclocking utility they've also got some of their selling points here so that the number one seller they're the number one in reliability and service according to some surveys somewhere and they're the performance leader in 3dmark Vantage although 3d mark 11 was released today so it's going to be off to the races all over again for all the crazy overclocking guys and then number one folding at home team in the world so 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